The Central Bank of Germany tested the settlement of securities using DLT

The Central Bank of Germany tested the settlement of securities using DLT

The Central Bank of Germany announced the successful testing of settlements for securities transactions with Deutsche Börse, which used distributed ledger technology (DLT). According to a statement from the German Federal Bank, the Central Bank has successfully completed testing of settlements for securities transactions using DLT and the real-time gross settlement system TARGET2. An atomic transaction was made, meaning that the Central Bank payment and securities were simultaneously exchanged in a delivery versus payment transaction.…

Microsoft launched a solution for identifying ION users on the Bitcoin blockchain

Microsoft launched a solution for identifying ION users on the Bitcoin blockchain

Daniel Buchner, Senior Product Manager for Decentralized Identity Products at Microsoft, has confirmed the launch of ION, a decentralized identifier (DID) network on the Bitcoin blockchain. In an article on the company’s blog, Daniel Buchner said that after four years of development, the ION solution was finally released. It is a second tier solution on the Bitcoin blockchain that stores DID and DPKI (Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure) and is scalable. DIDs can be used to…